Within the Whirlwind ( Mitten im Sturm ) ( Wichry Kolymy (Within the Whirl wind) )

Within the Whirlwind (Blu-Ray) (*)

$21.99

Original Title: Mitten im Sturm
Alternate Title: Wichry Kolymy (Within the Whirl wind)
Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Poland ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Marleen Gorris

Written By:
Nancy Larson
Eugenia Ginzburg

Actors:
Emily Watson ..... Evgenia Ginzburg
Ben Miller ..... Krasny
Ian Hart ..... Beylin
Pam Ferris ..... Genia's mother
Ulrich Tukur ..... Dr. Anton Walter
Benjamin Sadler ..... Pavel
Jimmy Yuill ..... Siderov
Zbigniew Zamachowski ..... Guard
Monica Dolan ..... Pitkowskaya
Pearce Quigley ..... Yelvov
Agata Buzek ..... Lena
Lena Stolze ..... Greta
Krzysztof Globisz ..... Timoszkin
Heinz Lieven ..... Old Vlady
Nick Dong-Sik ..... Confucius

Synopsis:

Evgenia Ginzburg, a Russian Literature Professor at the University of Kazan, and her family live the privileged lives of Communist apparatchiks, with a large apartment, a new American car and a country dacha. Under Stalin's leadership, the Communist Party undergoes a major transformation, and little by little, all intellectuals, engineers and academics are interrogated by the secret police. Evgenia is suspected of membership in a Trotskyist organization. While enduring various sophisticated psychological tortures, she finds herself facing outrageously trumped-up charges. Unwilling to denounce anyone, she is sentenced to 10 years of hard labor. For Evgenia, it is the beginning of a long, painful journey into the Gulag camp system, where she survives only because of her love to a German camp doctor.

Dutch director Marleen Gorris's film Within the Whirlwind is based on the autobiographical writings of Eugenia Ginzburg (published in English in 1967 as Journey into the Whirlwind). Following the assassination of the prominent Soviet official Sergey Kirov in 1934, the young academic at the University of Kazan was swept into the maelstrom that culminated in the bloody terror of 1936 to 1937, a terror waged against an entire people and its revolutionary socialist elements in particular.

About a Russian dissident imprisoned in the gulag in the Stalin era.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 31 October, 2012.

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